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Definition of brood : 1. Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.
3. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
4. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
5. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
6. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
7. To cherish with care.
8. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; - usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
9. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
10. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
11. To think anxiously or moodily upon.

Synonyms:

pack, shroud, cheep, yawp, lie, concoct, oscillate, caw, traverse, get across, track, chirp, embrace, oviparous, chatter, hatching, lie in, inhabit, grudge, baby, handle, flap, think of, covey, dream up, posterity, consist, cross, hulk, fidget, brooding, young, vacillate, extend, continue, hatch, mop, think up, address, litter, beat, incubate, populate, underwrite, hover, drove, report, herd, spread over, enshroud, kiddie, thoughts, kid, cub, predominate, have a lot on your mind, calf, sulk, kiddy, insure, mow, comprehend, cut across, bullock, linger, chick, dwell, cover up, filly, mope, kin, seed, bulk large, loom, fret, panic, brat, hardly dare (to) breathe, harp, progeny, compensate, agonize, fawn, get, mite, fear, coo, lot, overcompensate, cover, alight, cut through, swarm, crybaby, concern, get over, group, bevy, cry, vibrate, deal, grizzle, overlay, upset yourself, issue, foal, set, encompass, offspring, sit, whine, worry, colt, treat, pass over, breed, tower, plow, live, pout, wrap up, monkey, cark, stew, family, devil, hide, flock, dread, levitate, yammer

contemplate, speculate, calculate, deliberate, debate, reason, consider, cerebrate, ponder, analyze, meditate, envision, imagine, appraise, weigh, study, muse, think, evaluate, concentrate, cogitate, reflect, daydream

Usage examples:

• On the 16th August he saw a brood, while on an adjoining tree there was a nest with two slightly- set eggs. - "The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1", Allan O. Hume.
• I remembered how in days gone by you used to step away, and come here to sit and brood. - "Jerusalem", Selma Lagerlöf.
• It we suppose the parents to hunt for food twelve hours in a day, and a nest to contain four young, we should have seventy- two worms, or eighteen each, as the daily supply of the brood. - "The Earth as Modified by Human Action", George P. Marsh.